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SCOPH
Public Health
Campaigns, exhibitions, competitions, forums and workshops on NCDs, mental health, tobacco, nutrition and environmental health.
- Type
- Standing committee
- Projects on record
- 13
- Fields of work
- 9
- Officers
- NPO
- Contact
- npo@ifmsa-thailand.org
What it works on
- Non-communicable diseases and healthy lifestyles (stroke, cancer warning signs)
- Nutrition and malnutrition
- Tobacco control, including e-cigarettes
- Mental health (depression, imposter syndrome, death anxiety/thanatophobia, suicide prevention and active listening)
- Palliative and end-of-life care
- Environment and health (PM2.5 air pollution, environmental medicine, climate)
- ADHD awareness and inclusive learning environments
- Communicable disease prevention
- Intergenerational understanding and community wellbeing
How it works
- National public health awareness campaigns (education plus advocacy)
- Creative competitions as the main engagement format - art/drawing, photo, poster and short-video contests
- Public exhibitions, including art exhibitions in parks and on campus
- Panel discussions, public forums and debate competitions
- Hands-on skills workshops (active listening and empathy, coping strategies, reflective exercises)
- Online webinars and cross-country public discussions with partner IFMSA/CIMSA national organisations
- Regular social-media health content
- Surveys of medical schools used as advocacy material for curriculum change (environmental medicine)
National Public Health Officer (NPO), supported by Deputy National Public Health Officers
npo@ifmsa-thailand.org13 projects on record.
The Universe in Our Mind
2022National mental health and self-development event, 24 December 2022. 123 participants rated what they learned 4.41 out of 5.
Death Before Dying
2023Palliative care, advance care planning and loss, with the Peaceful Death Organization, 15 January 2023. 62 registered; satisfaction 4.54 out of 5.
REJECT SMOKING, RECEIVE LIFE: The Art Exhibition
2023-2024An anti-tobacco art exhibition on tobacco products and second-hand smoke, with a before-and-after visitor quiz. Planned for 26 December 2023 to 7 January 2024 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
Garden of Healing Hearts
2023Depression and imposter syndrome, 1 July to 31 October 2023: a drawing competition, then a park exhibition with talks and workshops. 191 participants.
Hear for You
2023Two-day workshop with the Samaritans of Thailand, planned for 11-12 November 2023 at Chulalongkorn University, on active listening and talking with someone who is suicidal. Its certificates are dated 17 February 2024.
Bridging the Generation Gap (ทอดสะพานให้ถึงกัน)
2023A moderated online conversation across generations about the beliefs that divide them, on 19 August 2023, with a follow-up task. About half of those who registered took part.
Happy Death Day…สุขสันต์วันสุดท้าย
2024Death anxiety, February to May 2024. Main day 4 May: exhibition, lecture and workshops, including writing a will to yourself, plus a photo contest.
Envital Debate
2024An online workshop on environment and wellbeing, then a debate competition, January to July 2024. Winners represent IFMSA-Thailand at environmental-health meetings.
Sustainable Well-being Amidst PM2.5 Air Quality Challenges 2024 Panel Discussion
2024A panel discussion on PM2.5 air pollution and health.
SavingStrokes
2024Stroke and NCD awareness, 31 May to 31 August 2024: Instagram content, then a three-minute video contest judged by NCD experts.
Nutrition Day 2024: Education to Prevent Malnutrition in Indonesia and Thailand
2024Online discussion with CIMSA Indonesia's SCOPH, 1-3 March 2024, on the double burden of malnutrition in both countries.
Shine with ADHD
2024National poster competition on ADHD in Thai education, 27 May to 15 July 2024, in three tracks: policy and access, awareness, and stigma.
Cancer Red Flag (อาการแบบไหนส่อมะเร็ง)
2023-2024Awareness activity on the warning signs of cancer, with before-and-after questions. 20 participants certified.
Where SCOPH posts
Worth knowing
- SCOPH prepared project proposals for presentation to the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (สสส./ThaiHealth) in 2022-23: REJECT SMOKING, RECEIVE LIFE, Garden of Healing Hearts, Hear for You and Bridging the Generation Gap.
- External partners named in SCOPH's own enrollment records: Peaceful Death Organization (Death Before Dying), Samaritans of Thailand (Hear for You), and CIMSA Indonesia's SCOPH (Nutrition Day 2024).
- SCOPH enrolled 6 activities in IFMSA-Thailand's 2022-23 activity enrollment (The Universe in Our Mind, Death Before Dying, REJECT SMOKING RECEIVE LIFE, Garden of Healing Hearts, Bridging the Generation Gap, Hear for You) out of 35 enrolled association-wide that year.
- In the 2024 enrollment rounds SCOPH-registered projects included SavingStrokes, Envital Debate, Shine with ADHD, Nutrition Day 2024, plus two names for which no proposal exists in these exports - T-SCEPT 2024 and Culinary Medicine.
- 2023-24 SCOPH core team of 11: one National Public Health Officer, two Deputy NPOs, two named project directors (Happy Death Day; PM2.5 panel discussion), three content writers and three graphic designers. The 2022-23 team numbered 18 and included dedicated project directors for Bridging the Generation Gap, Cancer Red Flags, Reject Smoking Receive Life, Garden of Healing Hearts and Hear for You.
- SCOPH has its own e-certificate series within IFMSA-Thailand's numbering (codes a numbered series in 2024), and issues certificates to participants, winners and organising staff alike - e.g. 85 for the Happy Death Day photo contest, 191 participants plus 32 staff for Garden of Healing Hearts, 41 for the Humanized Medicine Project (17 Feb 2024), and 11 for the 2023/24 SCOPH members themselves (30 Sep 2024).
Want to work with SCOPH?
Write to the national officer, or start at your own Local Committee, if your medical school has one.